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Donald Woods, banned editor of the Daily Dispatch (East London) reaches Britain with his family, having fled South Africa via L
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South Africa signs treaty with France on the installation of a scientific space tracking station in South Africa.
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The United Nations Secretary-General, Dag Hammarskjold, visits South Africa from 6-12 Jan.
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Aggrey Zola Klaaste, journalist and editor of the Sowetan, is born in Kimberley.
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Walter Whall Battiss, South African educationist, painter and specialist on the San art, is born in Somerset East, Eastern Cape
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The Battle of Wagon Hill (Platrand), south of Ladysmith, takes place, in which the Boer forces make an unsuccessful attempt to
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Death of Herman Albrecht, a South African soldier who fought on the side of the British during the S.A. War and who received th
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Cecil John Rhodes is forced to resign as prime minister of the Cape, because of his involvement in the Jameson Raid.
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”Die Vierkleur” (Four Colour), flag of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR), is hoisted for the first time in Potchefstroom at
"Die Vierkleur" (Four Colour), flag of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR), is hoisted for the first time in Potchefstroom at the inauguration of M.W…
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A Dutch ship, the Rosenberg, carrying Huguenots (Protestant refugees from France), leaves for the Cape from the Netherlands.
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Vasco da Gama comes ashore at the mouth of the Limpopo River. He and his crew make the first White contact with Black southern
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The Proteas became the first South African team in history to win a Test cricket series in Australia when they took an unassail
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Pretoria High Court Judge Nkola Motata is arrested for drunk driving after he drove into a wall north of Johannesburg. He resis
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Louis Buys, chief director of disaster management at the department of provincial and local government, says the South African
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The cricket team of South Africa suffers an innings defeat in the second test against Australia in Sydney. Shane Warne take
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Mass celebration takes place in the streets of Lilongwe, Malawi, following the arrest of former president Hastings Kamuzu Banda
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Allan Boesak, charged with financial impropriety, agrees not to take up the post of Ambassador to the United Nations.
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The Swedish Government announces that it will give financial aid totalling about 110 million Rand to the ANC and other organisa
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SA signs air service agreement with the Republic of Malaysia.
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The ANC agrees to close its military training base in Angola and in return South Africa must stop aid to the rebel Angolan UNIT
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The planning and programming divisional manager of the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA), Mr Danie Schoeman, says that
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Senator Edward Kennedy pays an eight-day visit to South Africa.
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The forty-five mercenaries alleged to have commandeered an Air India Boeing and forced it to fly to Durban, after attempting a
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Kenya president Jomo Kenyatta disbands parliament.
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The Meadowlands Tswana School Board meets with the local inspector of the Bantu Education Department to discuss the conflict th
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The SABC starts regular daily TV transmissions after trial transmissions during 1975.
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The British Foreign Minister, James Callaghan, arrives in Port Elizabeth for a three-hour meeting with Prime Minister John Vors
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The Van Riebeeck festival, commemorating the settlement of Whites in South Africa 300 years ago, is officially opened by dr D.F
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WW2: Bardia, Libya, falls to a British assault 25 000 Italian troops, including six generals, are captured.
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